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Welcome to CS First Storytelling.
Over the next eight days of this club
you will get to create some exciting
interesting stories using computer science.
Today you'll learn what computer science is.
You'll find out what kinds
of stories you'll make in this club.
And, finally, you'll make your own program.
CS First Storytelling is a computer science club.
Computer science uses computers
to make amazing projects, also called programs,
that allow people to entertain,
solve problems, do work, and save time.
In this one you'll learn many different ways
computer science relates to things you do and see every day.
You might be surprised.
In this club you will create stories
with the projects you build.
However, people use computer science to build
all kinds of projects and solve many types of problems
from sharing pictures across the world
to dispatching a fire engine in an emergency.
Over the next eight club sessions you will be introduced
to some of the incredible creations people build
and problems people solve using computer science.
You will also learn how to use computer science
to create your own stories and programs.
When this club ends you will have
a collection of your own stories
that you've made while learning computer science.
Take a look at some sample stories that you'll have a chance
to build over the next eight club sessions.
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Today you will create a dialogue driven story
while you learn about two important
computer science principles, sequencing and testing code.
Sequencing means putting things in order.
When you write code you need to carefully decide
the order in which the code will run.
Today you will learn about sequencing
and testing code as you create a dialogue,
or a conversation between two characters.
Good storytellers use dialogue to provide the audience
with insight into the characters and plots.
Take for instance a piece of dialogue
like "I didn't think you'd show up."
Well, why not, is the other character
a coward, lazy, too busy?
Is this a dangerous situation?
What might the character want to avoid in that situation?
Is something bad gonna happen?
Good dialogue requires a response
that moves the plot forward.
In today's club you will create
a story that's driven by dialogue,
meaning that you'll use a conversation
to reveal important information about the plots
and the characters in your story.
As an extra challenge you need to do all of this
without using any questions in your dialogue.
Asking and answering questions
within a story can slow it down,
plus that's not really the way people
talk to each other in real life.
Exercise your storytelling muscles.
You can create a riveting dialogue without using questions.
Now, take a look at an example project.
This project has two sprites
who use dialogue to direct the story.
The dialogue is sequenced using say and wait blocks.
To start go to scratch.mit.edu.
This will open scratch in a new tab.
If at any time you need to get back to see us first
simply click the tab at the top of your window.
Switch between Scratch and CS first.
Once on the Scratch website sign in using
the username and password on your club pass.
Then, click create to start a new project.
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